CEOs love iPads, and other things you need to know about the cloud

Last week, VentureBeat hosted its first ever CloudBeat conference. It was a huge success (if we do say so ourselves), with more than 400 executives from cloud startups, leading cloud service providers, and various Fortune 500 companies coming together to …

SAP-SuccessFactors: 9 reasons why this is a smart acquisition

Software giant SAP acquired internet software company SuccessFactors on Saturday for $3.4 billion, in what most accounts praised as a commendable move to embrace the so-called “cloud.”

The “cloud” is a buzz-word that refers to the new way applications are …

Why Oracle’s customers have been clamoring for a public cloud (video)

At the CloudBeat conference today, we caught up with Oracle VP Rick Schultz and asked him to elaborate on Oracle’s upcoming public cloud offering.

Fresh off a session about public and private cloud technologies, Schultz spoke about the importance of …

Eloqua CEO talks about how SaaS empowers companies

Marketing automation firm Eloqua is in a “quiet period,” but that didn’t stop CEO Joe Payne at CloudBeat 2011 from talking about his company and how the basic SaaS services it provides are transforming business.

For reference, Eloqua offers various …

Benioff unplugged: Salesforce.com chief says CEOs who don’t change will face a Corporate Spring (video)

Everybody should see Marc Benioff live and unplugged. The chief executive of Salesforce.com gave an amusing keynote speech at the AME restaurant in San Francisco this week after getting booted out of Oracle OpenWorld 2011.

We caught his Q&A with …

Why HP needs to merge with SAP

HP has had to face tough realities this week. Fortunately, there is a way for it to survive: Embrace the inevitable trend favoring “vertical” companies.

In the first part of the 2000s, IBM and HP went in two vastly different …